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Written Cantonese exists, but most Cantonese-speakers write in standard written Chinese (which is what you’re calling “written Mandarin” here), and pronounce th
by School-Cotton 4y ago
Written Cantonese exists, but most Cantonese-speakers write in standard written Chinese (which is what you’re calling “written Mandarin” here), and pronounce the characters in Cantonese, regardless of whether they can speak Mandarin.
- SeanLuke 4y ago100% correct. Cantonese speakers write in Chinese just as Mandarin speakers do (though they pronounce the characters differently). Written Cantonese, as it were, is cobbled together from certain Chinese characters and, of all things, a few English letters: perhaps mostly used nowadays to portray Cantonese dialogue in comic books.